In Rome Pietro Aretino was so hated by one of the victims of his pen, Bishop Giberti, that this even tried to kill him.One night, while he was on his way home from a party, he was stabbed twice by a masked assassin hired by Giberti. Although he was almost on the verge of death,… Read More Pietro Aretino & Michelangelo/2
In an elegy written by Peacham there is a peculiar comparison between Aretino’s Pictures and Michelangelo‘s works.Henry Peacham (1578 1644) was an English poet and writer whose most famous work is “The Compleat Gentleman”, published in 1622, presented as a guidebook for young men of good stock. There he expressed his theories on Renaissance education,… Read More Pietro Aretino & Michelangelo/1
🄻 🄸 🄱 🄴 🅁 🅃 🄰 Questa settimana Eletta Senso ha proposto un acrostico sulla parola Liberazione, che io ho adattato mutandola semplicemente in Libertà.Ecco la mia proposta. La nostra esistenza cheInesorabilmente procedeBrancolando traErrori e soprusiRiuscirà a progredire soloTramite un’adesione di tuttiAl grande obiettivo della libertà Se volete giocare, aggiungete i vostri testi nei… Read More Acrostico 🔤
➡️Part 1➡️Part 2➡️Part 3a➡️Part 3b Pietro Aretino & His Sonnets When the papacy banned this second edition of “I modi” and destroyed every copy they could find, Pietro Aretino went to Venice, where he spent the rest of his life, while Raimondi, the engraved, managed to escape a second imprisonment, but was financially ruined. It… Read More Pietro Aretino /3c
➡️Part 1➡️Part 2➡️Part 3a Pietro Aretino, Giulio Romano & Marcantonio Raimondi (second part) While engraver Marcantonio Raimondi was imprisoned by the Pope for printing those erotic drawings of sexual positions known as “I Modi (The Ways/The Positions),” or “The Sixteen Pleasures”, Giulio Romano, the source of the original sketches remained untouched because he had produced… Read More Pietro Aretino /3b
➡️Part 1➡️Part 2 Pietro Aretino, Giulio Romano & Marcantonio Raimondi (first part) Giulio Romano (1499 –1546) was an Italian artist, assistant in Raphael’s workshop, where he became so important that after Raphael’s death he completed a number of his master’s unfinished works. Before leaving Rome to become a painter and an architect at the court… Read More Pietro Aretino/3a
YouTube was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three PayPal employees, eager to set up a new site that would allow people to quickly upload a video and share it with the world.Under the slogan “Broadcast yourself”, the American online video sharing and social media platform made its debut… Read More YouTube
Yesterday (see here) I talked about the last poem from Louise Glück’s collection “Ararat” , the book that traces her inner journey in the aftermath of her sister’s and father’s deaths. In the shadow of these deaths, the poet forces herself to look back on her childhood in order understand herself in the present.It is… Read More Louise Glück’ Parados
Louise Glück, born on 22 April 1943, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020. “First Memory” Long ago, I was wounded. I livedto revenge myselfagainst my father, notfor what he was—for what I was: from the beginning of time,in childhood, I thoughtthat pain meantI was not loved.It meant I loved. “First Memory” is… Read More Happy Birthday, Louise Glück!
Pietro Aretino (see here) was the prototype of the professional author, able to gain fame and wealth through publication. Celebrated throughout Europe in his time, he was an expert and innovative writer, who exerted a significant influence on sixteenth-century Italian art and politics.His literary attacks on the powerful were daring and insolent, and his fiery… Read More Pietro Aretino/2
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